Are You a Foodie?

Re:Are You a Foodie? (CCinNJ)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:50:26 GMT

Thank you Agnes. I salute you (in streetwise Vulcan foodie).

Re:Are You a Foodie? (agnesrob)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:48:05 GMT

I can and have always been able to do the two handed Vulcan salute! And Jim, I have never felt it is the "snootiness" of the food I enjoy but the enjoyment of said food that has made me a lover of food (aka a foodie)!!
CCinNJ, you're a hoot! love your input!!

Re:Are You a Foodie? (CCinNJ)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:35:57 GMT

Only tourists with empty pockets at the end of the day... salute with both hands here.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (MetroplexJim)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 20:17:57 GMT

When I was a kid it was all fresh meat and fresh veggies. The "spice cabinet" had Morton's salt and McCormick's ground black pepper. The fridge had French's yellow mustard and Heinz' Ketchup. An "exotic" meal involved Chef Boyardee's "Spaghetti Dinner Kit-in-a-box", complete with some dry stuff I called "par-meez-zi-han".

That was half a century ago. Since, I have come to enjoy deep fried stuff, sauces, and even most charcuterie. I still can't "do" sweetbreads, tripe, 'gamey' meats, or anything that is not muscle. Progress, I'd say, but still well short of "foodie"!

BTW: I have always been able easily to perform a two-handed "Vulcan salute". Clean upbringing, I guess.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (mar52)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:40:16 GMT

Oh yeah!

Re:Are You a Foodie? (agnesrob)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:40:01 GMT

CCinNJ

You qualify before the meal is served...with cool table paraphernalia.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (agnesrob)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:39:29 GMT

mar52

If I'm thinking about what I'll have for dinner while eating lunch does that qualify me?

You bet it does, Mar!!

Re:Are You a Foodie? (CCinNJ)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:35:55 GMT

You qualify before the meal is served...with cool table paraphernalia.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (mar52)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:02:20 GMT

If I'm thinking about what I'll have for dinner while eating lunch does that qualify me?

Re:Are You a Foodie? (agnesrob)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:50:19 GMT

Thanks, CC! I love being crazie and spookie!

Re:Are You a Foodie? (CCinNJ)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:28:48 GMT

You belong.

In the acknowledgement section of the book The Lexicon of Real American Food the Sterns thank the "opinionated foodies of Roadfood.com"...

I am both crazie and spookie for remembering that.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (agnesrob)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:04:01 GMT

eruby, I know what you mean about labels. They can be a bad thing unless you label yourself, in that, you have finally found a kindred, or many!. For many years I felt like I didn't fit in or was weird (which I may still be ).
I can talk to people about all kinds of hotdogs, natural casing or not, mentioning their number to pound ratio. I'm always willing to debate dry versus wet aging of beef. And then there's how to make the perfect corned beef hash or that homemade tomato aspic I made my Mom for lunch when I was nine years old. For as long as I can remember whenever anyone I knew went out for dinner or to a party my first question was never "did you have a good time?" but "what did you have to eat?", even as a child.
I think that when I first read the term "foodie" in an old Gourmet magazine, when in my 20's, it was more of a revelation than an insult. I am many other things too, Mom to 3, wife and sci-fi nerd, along with that bad horror film thing I love.
I love the saying "Some people eat to live, I live to eat!" For me, I guess, the term "Foodie" is not derogatory but an affirmation that I'm not that weird and at least to some, I belong!

Re:Are You a Foodie? (eruby)

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 08:57:12 GMT

You can call me Ray. Or you can call me Jay. Or you can call me Rayjay ............

The term 'foodie' to me always had a negative connotation, but in the words of S. E. Hinton, that was then, this is now.

I like food, it's as simple as that.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (Hepcat)

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:32:52 GMT

I'm a Roadfood kind of guy. I like all kinds of lunch counters, BBQ joints, clam shacks, pizza places, steak houses, Cajun cooking and dairy bars. TV watchers would describe me as a Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives kind of guy. When it comes to cooking my own meals, I don't go beyond the basics - spaghetti, hot dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches, etc. Does that make me a Foodie? I don't know.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (pnwchef)

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:02:18 GMT

I plan all of our family trips around restaurants, If Disneyland happens to be in the way, so be it...........Being in the Food business for 35 yrs, you live it, it's in your blood............pnwchef

Re:Are You a Foodie? (CCinNJ)

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:49:47 GMT

I haven't decided yet.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (ann peeples)

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:19:41 GMT

The answer is, yes.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (SeamusD)

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:16:48 GMT

Call me a foodie, call me anything, just don't call me late for dinner.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (felix4067)

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:10:04 GMT

I thoroughly enjoy cooking, and eating, and experimenting. But to me, "foodie" has a negative connotation. As has been said earlier, it implies snobby and uptight...like someone who would rather have two teaspoons of vegetables and a sliver of meat all alone in the middle of a huge plate, drizzled with some exotic blend of truffle oil and spices instead of a huge rack of ribs that requires 37 napkins to eat. You know?

But then I have an issue with almost anything people add an "ie" onto the end of to indicate a group of people. If it's the people in the group saying it, it sounds pretentious. And if it's people outside the group saying it, it sounds condescending.

*To me. All y'all can certainly feel differently about it, and more power to you!

Edit:
Just read the link from Slashfood, and while they insist that "foodie" is essentially the common man's word, it just isn't to me.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (love2bake)

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:50:12 GMT

Davydd

Can you do the Vulcan sign with both hands?

Yes. However, I think the mind meld would be far more interesting. :)

Re:Are You a Foodie? (kaszeta)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:42:11 GMT

I like to eat. I like to travel. I like to cook. And I even have a food blog.

Those probably qualify me as one, but I'm not particularly caring whether or not that makes me a "foodie".

Re:Are You a Foodie? (CCinNJ)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:54:43 GMT

That's what they tell me Texascajun.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (Texascajun)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:15:55 GMT

Carolina Bob and Agnesrob you're my heroes. I like all these and more. My tastes in everything are so varied. CCinNJ sounds like you would be fun to hang with.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (agnesrob)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:57:21 GMT

Thanks Bob for the info! My kids also suffer from my affliction! so we'll all check out the site!

Re:Are You a Foodie? (carolina bob)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:20:33 GMT

Agnesrob, you remind me of me. Besides a passion for food and eating out, I share your affection for Japanese monster films and B-grade horror films, especially the ones from the 1950s. I also post regularly on the Classic Horror Film Board and there's a thread there with almost 700 pages of puns and jokes regarding Tabonga the tree monster from the low budget "classic" FROM HELL IT CAME. If you haven't already discovered CHFB, you really ought to check it out.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (CCinNJ)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:07:00 GMT

I have the Vulcan salute down to a science with my left-hand.

It's a little bit of a crooked salute with my right-hand.

I'm practicing.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (Davydd)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:59:35 GMT

Can you do the Vulcan sign with both hands?

Re:Are You a Foodie? (agnesrob)

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:17:08 GMT

1bbqboy

CCinNJ

I know how to do the Vulcan grip.

I think we all suspected that.

Hey, I'm impressed!

Re:Are You a Foodie? (1bbqboy)

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:31:57 GMT

CCinNJ

I know how to do the Vulcan grip.

I think we all suspected that.

Re:Are You a Foodie? (CCinNJ)

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:28:26 GMT

I know how to do the Vulcan grip.